On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:43 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > To make things as clear as I can this is a DELL XPS Gen 2 Series a 32 > > bit machine using an i386 Centos OS 5.2 that was automatically upgraded > > to 5.3 by yum. > > > > oh, we thought you said a SERVER, such as a Dell PowerEdge, so we went > down the wrong bunnytrail :) > > "XPS Gen 2" could refer to either a Inspiron XPS laptop, or a desktop > XPS Gen 2. If its a P4, then its likely the desktop, as the laptop > used the Pentium-M. > > > The RAID controller appears to be on the mother board to me. The CPU is > > an Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz. BIOS version of A02. > > > > In the bios I can turn on RAID on but when the system boots I get a grub > > prompt. The only way to get the system to boot is to turn off the RAID > > configuration and boot to one drive. > > > > I have not seen anything regarding PERC. The SATA drives are connected > > directly to the motherboard. > > > > I have still not been able to make it work as RAID. > > > > Thanks to everyone for your help. This is my first RAID controller. > > > no, its not. its not a raid controller. its 'BIOS raid' aka 'fake raid' > > BIOS fake raid such as that isn't supported by Linux, instead, set the > controller for JBOD/ATA mode, and use the built in MD driver mirroring > in Linux. > > see the comments here under "SATA", > http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml#sata > the Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop has the same ICH6 southbridge IO chip as > the Precision Workstation this page mentions, while the Desktop XPS Gen > 2 had the previous version ICH5 > > > > _______________________________________________ John, Thanks much for your help. Sorry for the confusing information. My plan is to use this desktop as a mail server. Appreciate your help!!!! Greg